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CSSZ states that no pension is granted automatically and that you must apply. From 1 January 2026 the duty to post the informative personal pension insurance record is abolished by Act No. 417/2024 Sb. amending Act No. 155/1995 Sb., the data coming instead from the ePortal via electronic identification. That date is as published and checked on 9 August 2026.
That route needs a Czech electronic identity or an EU eIDAS credential, so someone outside the EU has neither a letter nor a login and is never prompted. CSSZ also caps early filing: no earlier than four months before the award date.
Sources: cssz.gov.cz, pensions made simple, cssz.gov.cz, informative personal list, cssz.gov.cz, pension reform
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A Czech work history may also carry a supplementary pension account with a private company, separate from the state pension and invisible on the CSSZ record. Two legacy products run in parallel: penzijni pripojisteni se statnim prispevkem, older and closed to new entrants, in transformed funds (transformovane fondy), and doplnkove penzijni sporeni, current, in participation funds (ucastnicke fondy). Both attract a state contribution (statni prispevek), so a balance may exceed the person's own payments. The CNB regulates the companies and the funds.
No official central register was found that lets an individual find which company holds their account. The CNB's JERRS registers licensed institutions, not accounts, and is CAPTCHA-gated. So identify the employer and the era, ask the company you think you paid into, and use JERRS to check that it exists or to find its successor.
Sources: cnb.cz, financial market supervision, cnb.cz, JERRS register, mf.gov.cz, private pension systems
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Czechoslovakia split on 1 January 1993. CSSZ states that employment before that date is recorded by the Slovak Social Insurance Agency if the person had permanent residence in Slovakia then, and that CSSZ requests it only within the pension proceedings, where it is decided whether pre-1993 employment is Czech or Slovak. The basis is Article 20 of Treaty No. 228/1993 Sb.
The criterion is permanent residence (trvaly pobyt), not where you worked and not nationality. Someone who worked in Prague in the 1980s while resident in Slovakia will find those years absent, so a record checked before the claim legitimately shows a gap. A gap is not proof the years are lost.
Ceska sprava socialniho zabezpeceni, the Czech Social Security Administration, holds the state pension record and decides claims.
Ceska narodni banka supervises the financial market, including pension funds.
Czech domains have migrated and the old cssz.cz English entry returned 403, so every link here is a .gov.cz address.
MPSV publishes at least 35 years of insurance for anyone reaching retirement age after 2018, and CSSZ publishes a lower ladder for earlier years under section 29 of Act No. 155/1995 Sb. Early retirement needs at least 40 years under section 31. Retirement age rises yearly to a maximum of 67, which MPSV states for those born after 1988. All of this is as published and checked on 9 August 2026.
Aggregation.
CSSZ states that insurance periods for entitlement will be counted for you, and distinguishes a full Czech pension from a proportional one, where each country pays its share, under Regulations (EC) No 883/2004 and No 987/2009.
The United Kingdom and Ireland are absent from the CSSZ agreement list, and no post-Brexit page was read, so readers in either country should ask their own institution.
Sources: mpsv.gov.cz, old-age pensions, cssz.gov.cz, old-age pension in detail, cssz.gov.cz, old-age pension, cssz.gov.cz, work and residence abroad, cssz.gov.cz, international agreements
Ask for the informativni osobni list duchodoveho pojisteni (IOLDP), now issued as the informativni vypis: insurance (employment) periods, substitute periods, and from 1986 assessment bases and excluded periods. It is delivered on the ePortal through Moje konto and the Informativni duchodova aplikace (IDA).
Moje konto also corrects the record: you can add missing periods and, once a year, request consolidation, a CSSZ check that needs no documents.
Have your rodne cislo, the birth number, to hand. It is on a Czech ID card and on old employment papers. No page states that it is the required input, so treat it as preparation rather than as a stated requirement.
CSSZ lists Identita obcana, data box credentials, or a foreign means under the EU eIDAS Regulation. Note visibly: eIDAS is sourced for the online pension application only, not for Moje konto or the informativni vypis.
cssz.gov.cz, pension application online, cssz.gov.cz, submitting a pension application
With no Czech e-credentials.
Any territorial social security administration gives the paper statement while you wait, but that means attending a Czech office. It serves someone who can be in Czechia, not someone in Toronto.
No remote route by post or email is documented for a non-resident. Someone abroad without a Czech e-identity or an eIDAS credential has no documented route to their record and should claim through the institution where they live. Obtaining a Czech e-identity, a data box or a NIA ID, also means attending a Czech POINT office.
IDA is confirmed free. For the informativni vypis, no fee is mentioned, which is not the same as a published statement that it is free. Expect Czech: the document's language is unconfirmed, though the ePortal has an English version.
CSSZ states that persons in another EU Member State, or in a country with a Czech bilateral agreement, generally submit their Czech pension application in their country of residence through the local pension insurance institution. In Czech terms, that is where you live or last worked, and within Czechia at the district office. So the action is to claim locally and name your Czech periods, not to write to Prague.
Krizova 1292/25, Smichov
225 08 Praha 5
Czech Republic
Switchboard +420 257 061 111
posta@cssz.gov.cz
Data box 49kaiq3
800 050 248
Only the channels above were confirmed. Do not assume CSSZ accepts pension claims or record requests by email.
From 1 January 2026 cheque payment ends, so anyone previously paid by cheque who has not given bank details may have had payments stop. As published and checked on 9 August 2026.
Sources: cssz.gov.cz, head office contacts, cssz.gov.cz, residence and work abroad, cssz.gov.cz, work and residence abroad
Sources: cssz.gov.cz, old-age pension, cssz.gov.cz, substitute insurance periods
No. CSSZ states that no pension is granted automatically and that you must apply. CSSZ also caps early filing: an application can be made no earlier than four months before the award date.
From 1 January 2026 the duty to post the informative personal pension insurance record is abolished by Act No. 417/2024 Sb. amending Act No. 155/1995 Sb., with the data coming instead from the ePortal through electronic identification. That route needs a Czech electronic identity or an EU eIDAS credential, so someone outside the EU has neither a letter nor a login and is never prompted. This is as published and checked on 9 August 2026.
No. A Czech work history may also carry a supplementary pension account with a private company, separate from the state pension and invisible on the CSSZ record. Two legacy products run in parallel: penzijni pripojisteni se statnim prispevkem, older and closed to new entrants, held in transformed funds (transformovane fondy), and doplnkove penzijni sporeni, current, held in participation funds (ucastnicke fondy). Both attract a state contribution (statni prispevek), so a balance may exceed the person's own payments. No official central register was found that lets an individual find which company holds their account. The CNB's JERRS registers licensed institutions, not accounts, and is CAPTCHA-gated. So identify the employer and the era, ask the company you think you paid into, and use JERRS to check that it exists or to find its successor.
Not necessarily. Czechoslovakia split on 1 January 1993. CSSZ states that employment before that date is recorded by the Slovak Social Insurance Agency if the person had permanent residence in Slovakia at the time, and that CSSZ requests it only within the pension proceedings, where it is decided whether pre-1993 employment is Czech or Slovak, on the basis of Article 20 of Treaty No. 228/1993 Sb. The criterion is permanent residence, not where you worked and not nationality. Someone who worked in Prague in the 1980s while resident in Slovakia will find those years absent, so a record checked before the claim legitimately shows a gap. A gap is not proof the years are lost.
MPSV publishes at least 35 years of insurance for anyone reaching retirement age after 2018, and CSSZ publishes a lower ladder for earlier years under section 29 of Act No. 155/1995 Sb. Early retirement needs at least 40 years under section 31. Retirement age rises yearly to a maximum of 67, which MPSV states for those born after 1988. These are as published and checked on 9 August 2026.
CSSZ states that insurance periods for entitlement will be counted for you, and distinguishes a full Czech pension from a proportional one where each country pays its share, under Regulations (EC) No 883/2004 and No 987/2009. CSSZ also publishes its list of agreement countries. The United Kingdom and Ireland are absent from that list, and readers in either should ask their own institution.
Ask for the informativni osobni list duchodoveho pojisteni (IOLDP), now issued as the informativni vypis: insurance (employment) periods, substitute periods, and from 1986 assessment bases and excluded periods. It is delivered on the ePortal through Moje konto and the Informativni duchodova aplikace (IDA). Moje konto also corrects the record: you can add missing periods and, once a year, request consolidation, a CSSZ check that needs no documents.
CSSZ lists Identita obcana, data box credentials, or a foreign means under the EU eIDAS Regulation. The eIDAS option is sourced for the online pension application only, not for Moje konto or the informativni vypis. Any territorial social security administration gives the paper statement while you wait, but that means attending a Czech office, which serves someone who can be in Czechia rather than someone in Toronto. No remote route by post or email is documented for a non-resident. Someone abroad without a Czech e-identity or an eIDAS credential has no documented route to their record and should claim through the institution where they live. Obtaining a Czech e-identity, a data box or a NIA ID, also means attending a Czech POINT office.
CSSZ states that persons in another EU Member State, or in a country with a Czech bilateral agreement, generally submit their Czech pension application in their country of residence through the local pension insurance institution. In Czech terms it is where you live or last worked, and within Czechia at the district office. So the action is to claim locally and name your Czech periods, not to write to Prague.
From 1 January 2026 cheque payment ends, so anyone previously paid by cheque who has not given bank details may have had payments stop. That date is as published and checked on 9 August 2026.
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